Solo Mining FUN with Raspberry Pi + AntMiner USB Stick

The ending is the best part...

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So if you’re on the fence about whether solo mining Bitcoin is worth it don’t worry because…

We’re going to see how much cash we can earn by solo mining Bitcoin on our Raspberry Pi for 24 hours.

This is an Ant Miner and it’s a piece of hardware designed to do only two things.

Look cool and run the sha256 hashing algorithm which is the algo used by most block chains to mine crypto.

First I need to get my bitcoin wallet address from my coinbase wallet which we will use to send any block rewards to.

Next we’ll connect our Antminer to our raspberry pi and boot it up.

Then we’re going to install CG Miner onto our Raspberry Pi

Next we’ll run the mining script which will use a solo mining pool.

(don’t judge my messy desk)

Now that the miner is running we can see this green led start blinking.

But is it all worth it?

Let’s find out.

So I let the miner run for a few hours, and here's what I found.

First off this thing is super hot I can barely touch it right now..

And you can see that we’re generating a hash rate of over 2 GH per second.

Which is actually pretty good.

But

Solo mining is kind of like playing the lottery - you could wake up one day and hit an entire block, earning over 200k in a single go but in order to do that we have to get lucky.

#raspberrypi #antminer #bitcoin

[johnbrooks]

He actually lost money with spent electricity.

[ThouBeteraNay]

It's more profitable to make and sell mining hardware :D

[MrKING-]

Legend says: he's still paying his electricity Dept because of this thing.

[davel]

I love the part where he tells us how much he earned

[amelieviennot]

Simple rule : "when its too easy to get in, there is usually no much money to be made".

[jjones]

To all the people saying he doesn't tell you, its because he made nothing. Solo mining means you need to hit the hash by yourself, which is super unlikely. Most people mine in groups

[Aldirko]

I like that part where he says how much does it makes

[NOOBNUT]

Remember guys. The real dislike button is the report button. I've done so and so should you too.

[Freaĸy]

Don't buy this Don't use this, he never told you how much you actually generated

[jozopako]

This is called solo lottery mining. With that single usb stick you have average rate of mining 1 block in 2500 years.

[Elite_Defender]

Plot Twist: He doesn’t actually tell you
Crypto isn’t worth it
Don’t buy it
Don’t buy this

[I.C.Weiner]

If you ever feel useless. Think about this video.

[alwyngulzar]

There's a heat sync on it that should be faced toward a USB fan for cooling.

[ryanXD]

Imma be honest we don’t need the loops on YouTube, can you script that differently

[darkthought]

Ohhhh so thats how much cash u got thanks for vid bro

[meinbherpieg]

Crypto was never intended to be a speculative security. It was meant to replace the USD with a decentralized token. But a mixture of a few poor technical decisions and people's innate desire to get rich quick lead to the chaos we have now.

[Apache_Diecast]

Conventional mining for Bitcoin nowadays are "Useless". Because the hash rate that you can get are limited because of the block mining deviden and of course "Electricity and Hardware".

[MistiMoan]

What about submerged liquid cooling would that help. Put it in a locking water tight container. If you want to bring it with you when traveling

[Galahime]

just plugged in 20 of these in my clients attic, ill let yall know how much i make next time i go do a check up.

[Syntax.error.]

coinbase jesus christ. Not your wallet not your crypto.